Cheatsheets: EdgeDB by example

Just getting started? Keep an eye on this collection of cheatsheets with handy examples for what you’ll need to get started with EdgeDB. After familiarizing yourself with them, feel free to dive into more EdgeDB via our longer interactive tutorial and much longer Easy EdgeDB textbook.

EdgeQL:

  • select – Retrieve or compute a set of values.

  • insert – Create new database objects.

  • update – Update database objects.

  • delete – Remove objects from the database.

  • GraphQL – GraphQL queries supported natively out of the box.

Schema:

CLI/Admin:

  • CLI Usage – Getting your database started.

  • Interactive Shell – Shortcuts for frequently used commands in the EdgeDB Interactive Shell.

  • Administration – Database and role creation, passwords, port configuration, etc.